Newscast Media MOSCOW—Moscow has said the arrest by the United States of a Russian man on
computer-hacking charges amounts to the "kidnapping of a Russian
citizen."

Roman Seleznyov, 30, was arrested on July 5 in the Maldives by the U.S. Secret Service and transported to Guam.
He is accused of hacking U.S. retail computer systems to steal thousands of credit-card numbers.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on July 8 that "we consider this as
the latest unfriendly move from Washington" and asked for "coherent
explanations about the incident."

Seleznyov is the son of Russian Duma deputy Valery Seleznyov.

Seleznyov was indicted in Washington state in March 2011 on charges
including bank fraud, causing damage to a protected computer, obtaining
information from a protected computer, and aggravated identity theft. Add
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